subject: Heart Rate Monitor improves Fat Loss for Interval Training for Hiking, Swimming, Biking, Running [print this page] Heart Rate Monitor improves Fat Loss for Interval Training for Hiking, Swimming, Biking, Running
March 18, 2011
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Noticing your burning fat more slowly as you age?
Alternating sprint and rest intervals in your workouts can jump start a older stalled metabolism. What happens is a high intensity sprint workouts get your heart rate pumping fast; as you enter the rest interval the body will attempt to return to your pre-exercise conditions, a process called homeostasis. When this happens, the EPOC (Excess Post-Oxygen Consumption) is higher than if you would have maintained a slower, ongoing work out. This increase in EPOC that burns fat and increases your metabolic rate. Fabulous!
Be sure to monitor your heart rate and time to determine a good interval length.
In general, longer intervals (which are more than 60 seconds each) burn quite a lot of caloric energy; short intervals (20 seconds or so) will burn fat stores. Both of these are an important element to good interval training. Whether you are running in a field or on a treadmill, bicycling, hiking, or swimming, youll need to alternate between intensities to challenge your bodys burn. Keep it guessing, so to speak.
One of the most important piece of workout gear to achieve this will be a good heart rate monitor. You will need a heart rate monitor that is specifically designed for your desired sport for interval training. Because accuracy is a must; this is not the time to rely on the little built-in monitors that are a part of exercise machines and cycles. Those can easily offer a miss-read or malfunction. If youve pursued sports for any length of time you know how easy it is accumulate a glut of gadgets that are just not as helpful as they claimed to be.
What to look for while shopping for your new heart rate monitor to insure success during your interval training sets:
Continuous heart rate reading: Look for a monitor that offers continuous heart rate reading. The design should allow you for hands free monitoring; the last thing you want to be doing while training is stopping to fiddle with a gadget.
Accuracy: You will need an ECG accurate heart rate monitor that gives a multi-view in HRM mode: giving you total exercise time, percentage of the maximum heart rate versus your current HR, as well as intensity levels based on your maximum heart rate during Fitness, Endurance, and Training.
Timing: a 24 hour chronograph that times your lap/split times is one of the most important features in a heart rate monitor for interval training.
Calories: One of your primary goals in interval training is to raise your metabolic rate. In order to do so, its vital to know how many calories youre burning. A good monitor will also report the percentage of fat you have burned.
You may also find additional features in a heart rate monitor for training with design and memory helpful, such as multiple time zone settings, 12 or 24 hour clock options, and alarms. If you are adjusting your work outs based on increased stamina and endurance, a memory function so you can compare your current performance with your goal.
The right heart rate monitor is the best way to set the intervals for fat loss and fitness.
There are monitors that come in a variety of designs for your wrist, arm, or ankle. To view a selection of colors and monitors with different features, or other fitness monitors for interval training, visit www.cascademountaintech.com
